Новости за 08.04.2018

The confirmation offers the administration greater assurances that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is committed to a potential meeting with President Donald Trump by the end of next month.

The two soldiers killed in Friday’s Apache helicopter crash on Fort Campbell have been identified by Army officials as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Ryan Connolly and Warrant Officer James Casadona.

At 16, Daniel Perlinger signed up for the Marine Corps knowing it would be his ticket to Vietnam. He said he did not know much about life at the time, but he was certain about one thing: Vietnam would provide him with a chance to vent his anger.

Gov. Kay Ivey said she is consulting with Alabama’s military leaders to determine if the state has adequate National Guard resources to send troops to the U.S./Mexico border if requested by the White House.

Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson also was nominated by the president for promotion to two-star admiral in the days leading to VA Secretary David Shulkin’s departure late last month.

Ed C.B. Danforth Jr., Alvin York’s training camp instructor and battlefield commander, also was an Episcopal layman and counseled the conflicted York on duty and faith.

As Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin battled last month to keep his job, his fate hinged in part on Concerned Veterans for America, a once-obscure advocacy group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

David Moore, 27, who said he suffers from PTSD, said his comfort animal, a 5-pound, 14-month-old Chihuahua named Angel, was beaten March 31 by his live-in girlfriend.

Local media have identified the perpetrator as an industrial designer living in Muenster who had been suffering from psychological problems, but police wouldn't confirm those details.

President Trump rips Russia, Iran on Twitter for responsible for 'backing Animal Assad' as Syrian doctors and rescue workers said 40 people were killed Saturday evening in the attack in Douma in eastern Ghouta,

Hansen takes over lead of military football league after handing defending champion Okinawa first defeat.

The U.S. Representative told reporters that he pulled out the gun to make the point that guns are only dangerous when they are in the hands of criminals.

An Ohio county and hundreds of other municipalities across the nation are suing companies that manufactured and distributed powerful painkillers and others up and down the supply chain, arguing that they knowingly peddled massive amounts of a highly addictive product that set in motion a public health crisis. The plaintiffs argue that the vast network of opioid businesses should pay for the damage the drugs wrought.

While soldiers held power for 29 years and have always played an internal security role in Nigeria, their deployment has surged since former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari won the presidency in 2015. Operating in all 36 states, they're dealing with a range of crises: Islamist militant attacks in the northeast, simmering unrest in the oil-producing Niger River delta, conflict between crop farmers and herders and widespread robberies and kidnapping.

A former top police official in Vietnam was arrested Friday on suspicion of involvement in a multimillion-dollar international gambling ring, part of the ruling Communist Party's crackdown on corruption.

When it was time to retire, his friends told him he could have made a high salary as a consultant in Washington. But retired Marine veteran Col. Royal Mortenson said in reply "I didn't want a job. I hadn't had a job for 30 years. I had a life. I wanted to do something that would be another life."

Among North Korea's most wanted is a 13-year-old boy with a bowl haircut who wears Nikes and steals glances at his smartphone. Flanked by two North Korean activists who had arranged for his escape from a brutal regime, last month Kim Moon Hyuk — who uses an alias to protect his identity — was introduced to some of the Cab Calloway School of the Arts students who funded his lifesaving journey.